CVE-2002-2097: Maradns

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The compression code in MaraDNS before 0.9.01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted DNS packets.

Affected products

• Maradns Maradns: version 0.5.28 only; version 0.5.29 only; version 0.5.30 only; version 0.8.99 only; version 0.9.00 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.